Hurricane Center monitors tropical wave in Atlantic

As of 2 a.m. Tuesday, the Hurricane Center reports that a tropical system, right, has a 40 percent chance for development in the next 48 hours

NOAA

A tropical wave sitting southeast of the Cape Verde Islands is being monitored by the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

The wave came off the coast of Africa on Monday and has a small window for development. As of 2 a.m. Tuesday, the Hurricane Center reports that the tropical system has a 40 percent chance for development in the next 48 hours, although it is not a threat to Southwest Florida now.

Once we get past that short window of time, the probability of development goes down as this tropical wave interacts with drier air and a more hostile wind environment in the eastern Atlantic, NBC2 reports.

Early this morning, Showers and thunderstorms have become a little more concentrated near the center of the surface low pressure system, located a couple of hundred miles south-southeast of the Cape Verde Islands, the Hurricane Center reports.

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